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I have a blog in Blogger. I am trying to increase traffic and page rank by submitting it to different Blog Directory. But I have failed to submit it to Alltop. It shows an error issue with my RSS feed. Can anyone help me telling what is the correct RSS feed form of Blogger/ Blogspot Blog?

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Short summary: this thread is about an RSS/Atom feed from a Blogger blog being rejected by Alltop. is correct to suggest a divide-and-conquer approach: determine whether the feed itself is invalid or whether Alltop’s crawler is the problem.

Start-by-start diagnostics:

  • Fetch the raw feed (not a rendered page) and confirm the HTTP response is a 200 with an RSS/Atom content-type rather than an HTML page or an error document.
  • Run the feed through a validator to check XML well-formedness and RSS/Atom rules; look for unescaped characters, stray control bytes, or a byte-order mark that breaks parsers.
  • Check encoding: the feed should declare and use UTF-8 consistently.
  • Inspect item elements: each entry should include a stable identifier (GUID or link) and a publish timestamp; missing or malformed elements can cause automated rejections.
  • If a third-party service (aggregator/redirector) sits between the blog and submit target, test the origin feed directly.

Practical fixes and notes tied to the thread:

  • Remove or simplify any embedded scripts, on* attributes, or large unescaped HTML fragments in post content; these often break strict validators.
  • Temporarily disable intermediary services and submit the direct site feed instead to see if the error disappears.
  • Try a minimal test post (plain text title + body) and re-submit that feed to verify whether content or structure is the culprit.

If the feed validates and other readers accept it, the next step is to supply Alltop with the raw feed URL, exact error text and a timestamp so they can debug their fetcher; if the feed fails validation, fix the XML/encoding issues first and then re-submit. These steps complement ’s suggestion and give concrete checks to narrow the cause.

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Have you successfully submitted the feed to other outlets? If so, then I think the feed is fine. In this case, you should contact Alltop and ask if they are having problems on their end.

If the feed did not work with other sites, then there may be a problem with it.

By default, the feed for a Blogger blog should look like the following:

http://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

(Replace "BLOGNAME" with the name of your blog.)

However, some sites don't require the full URL; some only require http://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Is your feed going through FeedBurner?
In this case, the output of FeedBurner should look like the following:

where "FEED_NAME" is the name you've assigned to this feed, and "RAN_LET" are random letters FeedBurner has assigned to this feed (but it's part of the feed, so you'll need them when submitting the feed to blog directories.)

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thanks for the helpfull information.

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Thanks for this information.It is very helpful.

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